Chapter 10, Selling Vegetables
When they reached the foot of the mountain, they found the carriage they had agreed on last night and put their loads on it.
"Ancheng, who else hasn't arrived yet?" After helping Mei Xue put the burden on, Aunt Meilian walked to the front of the carriage and asked.
He Ancheng is the village chief’s grandson, about the same age as his own son, only fourteen or fifteen years old.
"Aunt, you are here. Please come in and sit down. My third sister-in-law is still missing. She will be here soon." He Ancheng called Aunt Meilian into the room where the horses were kept.
But Meixue was outside, so how could Aunt Meilian go in? "Goodbye, Xiaoxue is still outside, let's just sit in the car, your third sister-in-law will be here soon, right?"
"Well, look, they're crossing the stream." He Ancheng has sharp eyes and he can see people in the distance clearly even in the dark sky.
Aunt Meilian took a look and said, "Okay, I won't go into the house."
When He Ancheng's third sister-in-law arrived, she also walked out of the stable.
The main reason was that everyone was carrying loads, and a horse-drawn carriage could only carry so much cargo. Plus, it was raining, and He Ancheng's family was worried about letting him carry so many people and cargo.
Afraid of something happening.
Along the way, everyone wore straw raincoats and headed towards the town in the rain.
It took them about two hours to reach the town. It was already daybreak, but because it was raining, everyone on the street was wearing straw raincoats and holding umbrellas.
If you come late, the better stalls will be taken by people from the town and those who came early.
Aunt Meilian walked in front carrying her load, looking around for an empty space for her to set up her stall.
Mei Xue followed not far behind her. There was nothing she could do as this was her first time setting up a stall and she didn't understand many things.
I can only follow Aunt Meilian.
I walked to the end of the street before I saw an empty stall. It was not big enough and could only accommodate one person.
Aunt Meilian might be anxious, so she walked over without thinking and watched her burden being put down.
With a smile on his face, he was about to take the things out.
At this time, she saw Mei Xue stopped in front of her stall, and then she realized that she was not alone today.
"Xiaoxue, how about we each set up half?" There was obviously no space here for Mei Xue to set up more.
Mei Xue felt a little embarrassed when she saw Aunt Meilian looking embarrassed, but she had seen the world after all.
"Forget it, Aunt Meilian, just set up your goods here. I'll go look somewhere else." The big market is the day when villagers from all over the town go out to sell their goods.
If you want a better stall, you really have to get up early to reserve a spot.
If you come too late, there will be no place to put your things.
At least there is no space for the vegetable vendors here.
"There's no space outside, and you have nowhere to put it, so just put it here." Aunt Meilian immediately tried to grab Mei Xue's shoulder pole.
How could Mei Xue let Aunt Meilian take away her strength? She half turned around and said, "It's okay. I'll go to the parking lot to find you after I finish selling." After saying that, Mei Xue walked out.
Aunt Meilian felt a little embarrassed, but she couldn't help but feel that she couldn't control Meixue.
I could only shout behind her and ask her to find the location and then tell her.
Mei Xue responded and disappeared into the crowd.
The town is quite large, well connected, and very bustling with people coming and going.
The rain began to slowly subside, and Mei Xue began to feel a little anxious.
Finally, she had no choice but to come to the place where she bought meat. She saw that there were many empty seats, but the surrounding area was full of meat sellers.
Mei Xue had no choice but to find the boss from last time and put down her burden next to him.
The boss was also a sharp-eyed man. As soon as Di Xue put down his burden and raised his face, the boss recognized him.
"It's you, big sister. Why are you carrying vegetables here to sell?" It's not easy to sell vegetables here.
The boss didn't say the latter part of the sentence, but you can tell what he meant by looking at his eyes.
"Hello, boss. It's raining so hard today that I can't walk very fast. Now there's no place to sell vegetables. I can only find an empty lot and see how much I can sell."
Mei Xue said to the pork shop owner with a smile on her face.
Just then, the wife of the pork seller came out of the house. "What's going on?" She thought the man was the vegetable seller from her hometown, so she asked.
The boss immediately started explaining to his wife, as if he was afraid that she would misunderstand.
It seems that the two of them have a very good relationship.
After hearing this, the pig boss' wife laughed and said, "Big sister, it's not easy to sell vegetables here. Everyone is used to buying vegetables over there. Do you want to look over there again?" The boss' wife kindly advised.
Mei Xue shook her head and said, "Thank you, boss and madam. There is really no space over there. Look, these are all things I found with great difficulty. I'll sell them for as much as I can."
After all, she is not the original owner, so she doesn’t take this vegetable seller seriously. Of course, even if she is the original owner, she is not as good as Mei Xue.
After hearing this, the proprietress looked at the vegetables in the girl’s basket and found that they looked very good.
"Is this early corn? Has it been packaged? Is there any pulp?" The proprietress looked like an expert and knew a lot about corn.
Mei Xue smiled and took out an corn from her shoulder pole: "Boss, try it." People in the village are used to taking a bite of the corn to see if it is sweet.
The boss is not from the city. He only managed to gain a foothold here by climbing out of the village.
It was not pretentious at all. He took a bite after receiving it. When the sweet juice burst out of his mouth, he was so happy, "Good stuff, big sister, give me ten sticks. My mother-in-law loves to eat this."
Mei Xue smiled. Look, business is coming to her.
"Okay, I'll pick some big ones for you." Mei Xue moved quickly, flipped through the corns a few times, and selected ten from dozens of corns.
There is no need to use your own scale, just put it directly on the pork chopping board, "Boss, please weigh it, my scale weight and other things are still pressed underneath."
Of course, it is more reassuring to use your own scale. The pork shop owner put the corn on the scale pan, lifted the scale, and pulled the weight back.
It didn't stop until it was lifted up high and couldn't fall down.
"Six pounds and two ounces, and it's tilted." Maybe it's a habit, the boss's hands are very steady.
"Even if it's six pounds, boss lady, just give me one dollar and twenty cents." When leaving, grandma told Mei Xue the price.
Corn is a rare commodity now and can still be sold for two cents, but it has been sold in a few sessions.
At most, after the next big market, there will be no early corn to sell, because by this time the corn in every household has become pulpy and can be eaten.
When she heard the price was 20 cents per pound, the proprietress frowned, thinking it was too expensive, but she also knew that it was a rare commodity, so the price was still acceptable.
He counted out one dollar and two cents from his stall and put it in Mei Xue's hand, "Here, count it."
Mei Xue took the money, took a look at it, put it directly into her pocket without counting it, and said, "Thank you, boss lady."
Mei Xue was a person who guarded her food, and she didn't know that she had to give a little extra when selling things. After receiving the money and the corn, she started to prepare her own vegetables.
There weren’t many vegetables today, so I just picked a bunch of peppers, corns, and some cabbage and eggplants.
All together it weighs only about 40 to 50 kilograms.
(End of this chapter)
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